Sentences with phrase «hydrogen tanks in»

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EM: Just think about the little fuel tank that has the hydrogen in it, that is 2 millimetre across, about the size of a peppercorn.

What it is: The vehicle can generate electricity from hydrogen that's stored in its tank, as well as from hydrogen stored outside the vehicle, though Toyota didn't specify how it would go about doing this.

Nor was there any report that we know of about the hydrogen tank explosion that killed postdoc Meng Xiangjian at Tsinghua University in Beijing in December.

«We want to be just as confident of the safety of hydrogen in our fuel tanks and on our street corners.»

The faulty ring, made brittle by unusually cold weather at launch, allowed a jet of flame to ignite the hydrogen fuel in the external tank.

In only two weeks of driving, the district coordinator of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds, of compressed hydrogen gas).

«We've got a real fun race going on here between plugging in vehicles and storing electricity in the battery versus pumping hydrogen into a tank and creating electricity from a fuel cell,» says Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research and development.

When an antineutrino hits a proton — a hydrogen nucleus in a water molecule in the giant tank — it transforms that proton into a neutron and a positron.

Production of fuel cells, electrolyzers and hydrogen storage tanks with lower cost and higher efficiency will be enabled by the work in Research Area 2 (lead by SINTEF).

Hydrogen is stored in a tank mounted down the centre of the car, with electrical energy transferred to an electric motor at the rear.

The automaker didn't provide charge times for the battery, though it says the hydrogen tanks can be refilled in about 3 minutes.

Meanwhile, about 8.8 pounds of hydrogen is stored in two carbon fiber tanks that sit at the vehicle's floor (one beneath the rear seats and another in the center).

In addition, there are two carbon fiber - reinforced hydrogen tanks, including one placed under the rear seats.

It has a life cycle of 10 years, compared to the five years the Tucson FCEV enjoyed, yet the unspoken plus is unlike a conventional electric vehicle, the hydrogen tanks can be filled in under five minutes — about the same time it takes to gas up a regular vehicle.

It includes a 3 - panel greenhouse, 20 - inch rims, recycled water in tanks on the roof with a hydrogen converter and hydrogen fuel cells, 4 wheel - hub motors, a «Terra - Scan» 360 - degree topography scanner on the roof, side skirts illumination indicating the operating and charge status of the energy packs, a roof rack and additional lamps integrated into the roof.

When compared to the Tucson FCEV's fuel cell stack, the Nexo's is 16 kilograms lighter yet boasts a one - kilowatt improvement in power density, now 3.1 kW per litre, which means a big improvement in driving range — in this case, 609 kilometres from its three underfloor hydrogen fuel tanks.

A newly developed hydrogen absorption material in the tank doubles storage capacity to 5 kg, extending cruising range to 560 km (350 miles), thereby greatly enhancing practicality.

Another notable feature is that it has the ability to recharge in just four minutes, and an impressive driving range of 378 miles from one tank of hydrogen.

Claimed fuel economy is 50 L / 100 km (4.7 mpg ‑ US) and the hydrogen is stored as a liquid in an insulated 170 L (45 US gal) tank.

While the electric cars can take hours to recharge, the Honda FCEV conceptâ $ ™ s hydrogen tanks can be refueled in around three minutes.

The fuel cell combines the hydrogen — which has to be pumped into the vehicle and stored in a tank — with oxygen from the outside air, and uses this to generate electricity to run the car's electric motor.

The fuel cell Clarity's acceleration was decent given it weighs on the high side of two tons and has armored tanks for 10,000 psi hydrogen both in the trunk and under the rear seat.

And, about digging up, you know that instead of electricity in a battery you have hydrogen in a tank, that's the only diference.

The 11 pounds of hydrogen stored at 10,000 psi in the two bulletproof carbon fiber tanks equates to enough power to keep a home in the US powered for up to a week, Toyota says.

The Intrado gets power from an electric - hydrogen hybrid engine, with the hydrogen supply stored in high - pressure tanks under the rear seats.

The hydrogen tank was mounted in the trunk.

The hydrogen tanks are specially reinforced with carbon fiber and polymer linings built in a 3 - layer structure.

[37] The Alfa Romeo MiTo Fuel Cell car uses a Nuvera Fuel Cell stack combined with a compact Li - ion traction battery pack to supply power to the electric motor; vehicle has top speed of 150 km / h (93 mph) and can accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers in 10 seconds, with hydrogen consumption of 3.2 liters diesel equivalent / 100 km (74 mpg US) and a range of 450 kilometers (280 miles) in NEDC, thanks to 700 bar H2 tanks.»

In addition, the lithium - ion battery behind the rear seats has the best possible protection against the consequences of an accident, as do the four hydrogen tanks.

Currently only available in certain locals that have hydrogen fueling stations, the Mirai can achieve up to 310 miles per tank of hydrogen and emits nothing but a little H20 from its «exhaust» pipe.

High - pressure hydrogen storage tanks constructed from carbon fiber keep the fuel safe in the event of a collision, while a nickel - metal hydride battery provides the drive storage.

The latter of the two technologies will help put potential buyers» minds at ease regarding the battery's range, as refilling the hydrogen tanks is not much different than filling gas tanks in existing cars.

The strategic placement of the fuel - cell stack at the rear of the vehicle, power control unit at the front and T - formation configured hydrogen fuel tanks result in front and rear weight distribution optimal for a sporty sedan.

External fuel tanks facilitate the refueling of ships in need of both hydrogen and quantum fuel.

For example, the Ford Model U hydrogen ICE / hybrid electric concept car carries 7 kg of hydrogen in its 10,000 PSI tanks and has a 300 mile range.

Currently, a large on - site hydrogen storage tank fills those needs and is refilled with hydrogen produced elsewhere and shipped in by Air Liquide.

By filling part of the tank with a MOF's cagelike network built with hydrogen - absorbent metal hubs and organic struts, however, it is possible — at least in theory — to store more of the gas at a lower pressure.

The vehicle stores its hydrogen in two 10,000 - psi composite fuel tanks mounted under the cargo floor — and its electricity in a lithium ion battery pack mounted under the rear seat.

Sensor for Measuring Hydrogen Partial Pressure in Parabolic Trough Power Plant Expansion Tanks

Having worked with high pressure hydrogen in the past, I have a hard time imagining the average guy or housewife «filling up the tank» with hydrogen, so I don't see it as a potential general motor fuel.

I did a lot of math on this and honestly, the ONLY way I could find to reasonably integrate large amounts of wind / solar... is to convert most of it into hydrogen, storing WEEKS WORTH in vast, metal lined, bored tunnels (or just huge arrays of tanks) near conventional gas fired turbine power plants... and JUST BURN IT in the power plant as fuel to buffer out the remainder of the wind / solar that's actually providing electricity.

Boeing engineers in Madrid have stripped out its fuel tank, replacing it with a bottle of compressed hydrogen that will feed into a fuel cell.

The hydrogen is storage in low pressure tanks and then with the uses of a fuel cell generates electricity and heat supplying the public energy grids.

In its current state, he estimates that an individual would need to shovel the equivalent of a man's weight of sugar into a 250 - gallon fuel tank so that the E. coli - reactor could produce enough hydrogen to power the average home for an entire day.

Hydrogen fuel, which eschews that problem, might help once the technology to store it in small gas tanks is achieved.

The FCX also boasts the lowest floor platform in the world by accommodating a motor, hydrogen tank and other components vertically.

The Equinox will get a modest 180 miles per tank of hydrogen; GM plans on letting selected individuals in New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. test - drive 100 vehicles over the next few years.

This means that more gas can be stored in smaller tanks that do not have to be insulated nearly as well as hydrogen.

One of the oft - heard complaints about hydrogen powered cars is that the fuel tanks can not store their fuel for extended periods — having to vent their contents in two to four days» time.

They believe that the prototype hybrid train concept, which uses a metal - hydride storage tank and hydrogen fuel cell working in tandem with batteries, is a very viable model for future development.